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Imaginative Plays for Schools & Community |
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Unpublished Plays “A CHANGE OF VENUE” Synopsis A serious work dealing with the legality and morality of abortion and death. Running Time: approximately 2 hours. Cast of 3M, 1F and 6 "eithers." When Father Thomas Slavin, a Catholic priest opposed to abortion concludes that the United States Supreme Court holding in Roe v Wade cannot be overturned in the political arena, he acts upon his belief that a fetus is a human person and takes the life of a doctor about to perform a late-term partial birth abortion. The play is a Court room drama in which Father Slavin and his attorney, David Hoffman, attempt to justify Slavin’s shot gun murder of Doctor Green before a jury of Slavin’s peers. When Doctor Green’s wife invokes a more primordial form of justice, the venue changes to a different court. FOR SCRIPTS OR PERMISSION TO PERFORM PLAY If you are interested in a perusing a copy of the play, obtaining scripts or obtaining permission to do the play, please contact me. Author's Email: irishplaywright@qconline.com
"THE GATES OF HELL" Synopsis The play spans a three week period in the life of a young Catholic Priest. Tom Ryan is the newly minted Catholic priest. He has been assigned to assist Monsignor O’Rourke at St. Patrick’s Parish. Without prior design, on the feast of the Immaculate Conception, he blunders into the realm of heresy when he questions the imputation of Adam’s sin to all his descendants. And like others before him who have advanced unorthodox teachings, Ryan learns the difficulty of returning to the bosom of Holy Mother Church. FOR SCRIPTS OR PERMISSION TO PERFORM PLAY If you are interested in a perusing a copy of the play, obtaining scripts or obtaining permission to do the play, please contact me. Author's Email: irishplaywright@qconline.com
“THE BLOOD OF MARTYRS” Synopsis In the year 203 A. D., Septimus Severus was emperor of Rome. In March of The great early Christian writer Tertullian is believed to have taken Perpetua’s diary of her imprisonment, and to have completed the vivid account of her martyrdom. The author has embellished that quintessential Christian testament of faith to incorporate the dissenting views and opinions of two non- Christian witnesses: those of her father, a pagan, and those of her jailer, Prudens, an agnostic. FOR SCRIPTS OR PERMISSION TO PERFORM PLAY If you are interested in a perusing a copy of the play, obtaining scripts or obtaining permission to do the play, please contact me. Author's Email: irishplaywright@qconline.com
“Nellie’s Prayer” Synopsis Nellie Dee is on a mission. The bishop has decided to close to close St. Bridget’s Catholic School because the parish is fast going broke. Desperate, Nellie withdraws her life savings and repairs to Blackie Hogan’s bookie joint. It is opening day of the new baseball season, and upon arrival, Nellie explains to Blackie Hogan that she wants to place a bet that the Cubs will win the pennant. Amused, that a sweet 95 year -old lady wants to patronize his business, the big-hearted Hogan offers here 1000 to one odds, only to find she intends to bet the entirety of her $5000 savings. A man of honor, Hogan accepts the bet. At the same time, however, Nellie peppers God with her incessant prayers. Fully aware of her purpose of saving the school, and impressed with her constancy, God sends his angel, Joseph, to announce to Nellie that here prayers have been heard. Entirely unaware of Nellie’s efforts, J. F. "Juicy Fruit" Wrigley, the owner of the Cubs, the fans, the press and the team's announcers suffer through one more miserable Cub season, until a desperate Wrigley decides to think “out of the box.” When he does, the Cub fan’s Midsummer Night’s Dream begins. FOR SCRIPTS OR PERMISSION TO PERFORM PLAY
"IS THE JOINT HAUNTED?" Synopsis On July 4, 1845, Col. George Davenport of Rock Island, IL was murdered in his home by robbers looking for gold and paper money. The Davenport Mansion was the first fine home built in the area. In the years that followed, it fell into disrepair. Eventually the home was saved by a not-for-profit group, the Col. Davenport Historical Foundation, a group founded to save and restore the historic house. Because Davenport died a violent death, many have long wondered whether the house might be haunted. Recently, a local paranormal society decided to investigate. This is the story of how that investigation went. FOR SCRIPTS OR PERMISSION TO PERFORM PLAY
“MORNINGS AFTER THE DREAM” Synopsis Ethel Jones, a single mother who works as a church secretary, keeps a home were she resides with her teen age son and daughter. Ethel’s husband was shot dead when the children were small during an attempted armed robbery. Her son, Terry, is a prejudiced, surly teen age boy. He has begun to repeat the mistakes of his father. He has dropped out of school and is selling cannabis on the street. The play begins when he brings home an expensive television set, and pits Ethel and the police against her disrespectful son, his girl friend and his new attorney. FOR SCRIPTS OR PERMISSION TO PERFORM PLAY
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